Social imaginaries of teaching ethics in two public administration schools in Argentina

In addition to teaching a profession, the university must transmit civic values that contribute to improving the social order, in the way that students and future professionals acquire skills to think critically and independently.

The analysis of the university ethics training should include both the specific content being taught and the attitudes and practices of teachers in the teaching-learning process and also students' own perceptions.

We recover  the concept of social imaginaries as those schemes that allow constructing reality, perceiving something as real, and explain and operate from specific references in the symbolic universe, that produces every community from which one perceives and elaborates its purpose.

From this theoretical framework, this paper exposes the results of the Research Project "Ethics in the training of managers" that tries to recognize the social imaginaries of teachers and students about ethical / unethical practices of managers as well as the methods and attitudes within the teaching process in the Administration Schools of two  recognized argentine public  universities: Buenos Aires University and La Plata University. Coincidences and differences  between teachers and students are analyzed.